@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp1789,
            	author={Kantarevic, Jasmin and Mechoulan, Stéphane},
            	title={Birth Order, Educational Attainment and Earnings: An Investigation Using the PSID},
            	year={2005},
	month={Sep},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={1789},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1789},
	abstract={Whether siblings of specific birth order perform differently has been a longstanding open empirical question. We use the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth order implies a distinct educational advantage, and whether there exists, within large families, a pattern of falling then rising attainment with respect to birth order, to the point where it becomes best to be last-born. Drawing from OLS and family fixed effects estimations, we find that being first-born confers a significant educational advantage that persists when considering earnings; being last-born confers none.},
	keywords={birth order;family size;education},
            }